placket hole

noun

noun

Historical A slit in a woman's outer skirt allowing access to pockets, items etc. kept inside.

Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles—and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association?1762, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, V.1:
‘What is loathsome is all your fumbling in placket-holes and polysyllabic Justification by Love.1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 18:

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